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Sandalwood
The Warm Prayer
Creamy heartwood that smells of skin and old devotion.
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Sandalwood is the rarest of warm woods — soft, lactic, almost milky, with a quiet sacred sweetness that lingers like the inside of a temple. True Mysore is now almost myth; her modern incarnations are gentler but still carry the warmth of the original.
A foundational base note, she gives a fragrance a slow creamy radiance and the closeness of skin warmed under cloth.
- Role
- Creamy base note
- Smells like
- Warm milk, soft wood, sacred resin, dry powder
- Used in
- Pairs well with
- Rose, vanilla, amber, ho wood, cardamom
